Failure of t-J models in describing doping evolution of spectral weight in x-ray scattering, optical and photoemission spectra of the cuprates

Abstract

We have analyzed experimental evidence for an anomalous transfer of spectral weight from high to low energy scales in both electron and hole doped cuprates as a function of doping. X-ray scattering, optical and photoemission spectra are all found to show that the high energy spectral weight decreases with increasing doping at a rate much faster than predictions of the large $U-$limit calculations. The observed doping evolution is however well-described by an intermediate coupling scenario where the effective Hubbard $U$ is comparable to the bandwidth. The experimental spectra across various spectroscopies are inconsistent with fixed-$U$ exact diagonalization or quantum Monte Carlo calculations, and suggest a significant doping dependence of the effective $U$ in the cuprates.

Accepted for Phys. Rev. B (2010). 7 pages, 4 figures

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